Thanks for the info ramesh.. Also would like to know -- Is Rahman the first asian music composer to win an oscar?
--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Ramesh R <[email protected]> wrote: From: Ramesh R <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [arr] Some Facts..Add in more... To: [email protected] Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 11:53 AM >From Wiki- Foreign language winners Manos Hadjidakis was the first to receive this award for a song originally written in a language other than English, in 1960 for "Never on Sunday" (Greek title "Ta Paidia toy Peiraia") from the Greek film Never on Sunday (Greek title Pote tin Kyriaki). Jorge Drexler was the second foreign language songwriter to win the Best Original Song Oscar, for "Al Otro Lado del Río" from The Motorcycle Diaries in 2004. That year another foreign language writing pair were nominated, composer Bruno Coulais and lyricist Christophe Barratier for "Vois Sur Ton Chemin (Look To Your Path)" from the French movie Les Choristes. A. R. Rahman and Gulzar are the third and fourth foreign language songwriters to win in the Best Original Song category, which they shared for the Hindi song "Jai Ho" from Slumdog Millionaire, at the 81st Academy Awards in 2009. That same year, "O... Saya", another partly Hindi song from the same film by Rahman and M.I.A., was also nominated, making it the first time two foreign language songs were nominated in the category.http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Academy_Award_ for_Best_ Original_ Song > > One Question..Is Jai Ho the first non-english song to be nominated and have > won the oscars in the best song category? >
